tci Part B Insider - 2008 Issue 21

INCIDENT-TO SERVICES: CMS Rescinds Recent Incident-to Advice, With No Plan to Replace It

With the new guidelines just about to take effect, CMS scraps Transmittal 87If you spent hours poring over the 23-page incident-to guidelines that CMS had planned to implement on June 2, you can forget everything you just learned. On the very day that practices were supposed to start using the new incident-to guidelines, CMS rescinded Transmittal 87, noting that the document -will not be replaced at this time.-Possible rationale: Several medical associations expressed concern about the new guidelines, saying that practices didn't have enough time to learn all of the regs- nuances in the one-month period between the...

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